1.5 GB | DVD5 | 720x480 | 145 min
The blues is a double-edged sword. At first, the style is very easy to learn; a few moveable chords to get comfortable, a simple 1-4-5 progression to apply those chords over, and a single minor pentatonic or blues scale to start soloing with, over that progression. You’d be hard pressed to find a quicker, more satisfying way to start making good music with the guitar. But then one day you wake up and everything you play sounds tired, boring and un-creative. You don’t even have the energy to pick up the guitar anymore. Happens to ALL of us. The only cure for all that ails your blues playing is a bagful of fresh perspective, creative insight along with the new harmonic and technical tools to put it all in play on the fretboard.
1.4 GB | DVD5 | 720x480 | 150 min
Mike organized Blues Americana into 2 sections. In the first section, Mike covers 17 key concepts and techniques that you’ll put to good work, and get plenty of mileage out of, in your own Blues Americana: Influences and Technique, Alternate Picking, Hybrid Picking, Finger & Thumb Style, Combining Techniques, Bending & Vibrato, Half-Step Bends, Slurring & Half Step Slides, Double Stops, Thumb & Fingerstyle Licks, Hybrid Rolling Licks, Phrasing & Melodic Approach, Tone and Feel, Building a Solo and THE Ultimate Rolling Lick (might be worth the price of admission alone!).
670 MB | DVD5 | 720x480 | 70 min
"Buster B. Jones is the best fingerpicker I’ve heard since Jerry Reed. He plays like he’s double parked." Chet Atkins
"Buster B. Jones is an acoustic player, a fingerpicker, a country flavored soloist, and he’s one of the finest players we've heard in years… His technique is only a means to an end. His true gifts are his melodic sense, innate musicianship, unfailing human, and brilliant improvisational powers. He can drive a tune with fluid rhythmic force or stroke it with sensuous, loving touch… He’s a monster player with chops galore, great ideas and an encyclopedic reservoir of guitaristic influences." Guitar Player Magazine
64 MB | DVD5 | 720x480 | 65 min
Visit with living legend Edwards, on of the last links to the classic Delta blues of the 1920s and 30s. He imparts wisdom and wit while reminiscing about his life and friends, including Robert Johnson. Included are detailed demos and thrilling performances of solo country blues, slide and lead guitar, boogie bass lines, and more, with a detailed booklet of key musical examples.
850 MB | DVD5 | 720x480 | 60 min
This is a lesson with a true blues master, and is not to be missed by anyone who's really serious about their blues guitar. Ronnie Earl is known for being a soulful player, and on this video he doesn't hold back! You'll learn the special chords used by Little Walter, T Bone Walker, Magic Sam, Robert Jr. Lockwood, the style of B.B. King, the fingerpicking of Albert King, Country Blues styles, question and answer phrasing, bending and shaking, turnarounds, and how to get maximum feeling out of minimum notes the key to blues guitar. If it's blues you're looking for, they don't come much better than this. Includes booklet with tablature.
700 MB | DVD5 | 720x480 | 65 min
This DVD lesson has been designed to help beginner and intermediate students of fingerpicking country blues guitar improve their playing skills and increase their repertoires using an alternating bass technique. Stefan Grossman illustrates and explains in detail ten fingerstyle arrangements in the keys of C, D, E, A, G and F. These popular blues and ragtime songs come from the playing of Mississippi John Hurt, Rev. Gary Davis, Mance Lipscomb and Elizabeth Cotten. Each tune is discussed and taught phrase by phrase and played slowly on a split screen so that you can clearly see what each hand is doing. A detailed 44 page tab/music booklet is included with this lesson. Tunes include: My Creole Belle, Louis Collins, Oh Babe Ain't No Lie, All My
2.6 GB | DVD5 | 720x480 | 50 min
As rhythm guitarist for blues legend Muddy Waters, Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin has gained invaluable experience in the art of Chicago blues rhythm guitar. And now in this exclusive and comprehensive book/DVD package, Bob Margolin and blues author/historian Dave Rubin bring you the definitive instructional guitar method on the subject, featuring loads of rhythm guitar playing examples to learn and practice, covering a variety of styles, techniques, tips, historical anecdotes, and much more. To top it off, every playing example in the book is performed on the accompanying DVD by Bob Margolin himself! The book also features a unique code to access the same videos online for download or streaming!
1.2 GB | DVD5 | 720x480 | 80 min
In this lesson, John Renbourn presents a wide variety of fingerstyle arrangements from traditional ballads to country blues, from a Booker T. & the MGs rock instumental to the church hymn Abide With Me. All receive the special touches of John's unique playing, and are explained in detail with the help of split-screen video techniques that allow the student to clearly see and study what each hand is doing. Titles include: White House Blues, Judy, Anji, Watch the Stars, Lord Franklin, My Sweet Potato, Abide With Me and Great Dreams Come From Heaven.
12 GB | DVD5 | 720x480 | 325 min
Robert Johnson is the most important blues musician who ever lived. I have never found anything more deeply soulful. His music remains the most powerful cry that I think you can find in the human voice. – Eric Clapton Robert Johnson's music sent me reeling. I couldn't even imagine how someone could play the guitar the way he did and sing at the same time. – Bonnie Raitt
4 GB | DVD5 | 720x480 | 90 min
Walter Furry Lewis (1893-1981) was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, but lived virtually his entire adult life in Memphis, Tennessee. He recorded 25 sides between April of 1927 and September of 1929, and several albums in the 1960s for Folkways, Prestige, and other labels after being rediscovered by Country Blues researcher Samuel Charters. A period spent performing with a medicine show as a young man provided Furry with on-the-job training as a musician and entertainer.
